Hon’ble Prime Minister envisioned housing for All by 2022 when the Nation completes 75 years of its Independence. In order to achieve this objective, Central Government has launched a comprehensive mission “Housing for All by 2022”. This much awaited scheme has been launched by the Prime Minister of India, Sh. Narendra Modi on 25th June, 2015 as Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana.

2017-12-28

Golden Quadrilateral Project: Starred Question in Loksabha

(a) whether the Government has allocated funds during the current financial year for the development works of Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah routes under Golden Quadrilateral project to operate high speed trains inter-connecting Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the time by which the budget is likely to be earmarked and allocated for development works of Delhi-Chennai project; and

(d) the time by which the train services are likely to be operational under the Golden Quadrilateral project?

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS

LOK SABHA

STARREDQUESTION NO:140 ANSWERED ON: 27.12.2017

Golden Quadrilateral Project

NAGARAJAN P.

Will the Minister of RAILWAYSbe pleased to state:-

(a) whether the Government has allocated funds during the current financial year for the development works of Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi-Howrah routes under Golden Quadrilateral project to operate high speed trains inter-connecting Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi;

(b) if so, the details thereof;

(c) the time by which the budget is likely to be earmarked and allocated for development works of Delhi-Chennai project; and

(d) the time by which the train services are likely to be operational under the Golden Quadrilateral project?

(a): Yes, Madam. Two projects for raising of speed to 160/200 kilometre per hour on existing corridors of Delhi-Mumbai (including Vadodara-Ahmedabad) and Delhi-Howrah (including Kanpur-Lucknow) have been included in the Works Programme 2017-18 at estimated cost of ? 18,163 crore. Token fund allocation of ? 1 lakh each has been made for the projects during the current financial year 2017-18.

(b): The projects cover Delhi-Mumbai and Delhi- Howarh routes. The details are as under:-

•New Delhi-Howrah route (including Kanpur-Lucknow), 1525 Route kms This route passes through five states viz. Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The work has an estimated cost of ? 6974 crore.

•These projects have been structured on a new approach viz. Route wise, Single composite work, single agency execution and complete funding through Extra Budgetary Resources– Institutional Finance (EBR-IF). These projects mark the beginning of a new era of network development through a directed investment strategy on Golden Quadrilateral and Diagonal routes of Indian Railways.

•The main outcome of the implementation of these projects is increase in the maximum speed of the trains on these routes to 160kmph. This will reduce the travel time of premium Rajdhani type trains to 12 hours as against the present travel time of 15 hrs 30 minutes and 17 hours respectively for Mumbai and Howrah Rajdhani. Besides this, the average speed of all trains will improve by 25-30%.

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